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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Completion of error handling
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:42:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B688042.8090400@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002021424550.1681@xanadu.home>


> At least on Linux, most of those functions simply cannot fail.

Would you like to support software environments that work without a
famous out-of-memory killer?


> There is just no dynamic memory allocation involved.
>   

I find this opinion strange.


> All other errors are normally due to bad code.
>   

I suggest to avoid unchecked function calls.
Would you like to detect every error situation as early as possible?

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-02 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-02 13:11 Completion of error handling Markus Elfring
2010-02-02 18:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-02 18:49   ` Markus Elfring
2010-02-02 19:27     ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-02-02 19:42       ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2010-02-02 19:49         ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-02 20:10           ` Markus Elfring
2010-02-02 20:25             ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-02 21:26               ` Markus Elfring
2010-02-02 21:27                 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-02 21:55                   ` Markus Elfring
2010-02-11 13:08   ` Markus Elfring
2010-02-16 10:56     ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-02-18 15:11       ` Markus Elfring

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